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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe, 1757-1761
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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 51

[Sharpe to Stanwix.] 9thof Iuly 1757. Sir
I am favd with Your Letter of the 4th Inst by Mr Hay &
have agreeable to Your Desire intimated to Capt Alexr Beall
what Officers & Men I would have him order to Fort Cum-
berland in case he has received or shall receive Instructions
from you to send any Detachments thither. I think you
will approve of Capt Pearis's being ordered up as he under-
stands the Cherokee Language & might be of particular
Service there while any of those Indians continue on our
Frontiers. You will observe that I have not given Capt Beall
peremptory Orders because I presume that you have already
sent him such as you thought expedient & because as I be-
fore hinted to You our Act of Assembly as well as Your Letter
to him of the 12th of March make it improper for me to do so.
I have received no Returns from Capt Dagworthy since he
left Fort Frederick neither do I know the Strength of the
Garrison that is at present under his Command. I have
already intimated to you that I am afraid Capt Alexr Bealls
Company will continue very weak unless he can himself be
ordered on the Recruiting Service & I submit it to you
whether Capt Joshua Beall may not be spared from Fort
Cumberland & ordered to take the Command at Fort Fred-
erick for a time after Capt Pearis & the Detachments shall
have joined Dagworthy.

[Sharpe to Stanwix.]

12th of Iuly 1757.
Sir
Your Letter of the 4th Inst I received yesterday but as the
matters therein mentioned were of an Interesting nature &
your Request such as I was of myself unable to comply with
I have detained your Express till I could lay it before the
Council together with the papers that were therein sent. The
inclosed will shew you what is the opinion of the Gentln there-
upon. You may be assured that I shall endeavour to culti-
vate the Friendship of the Cherokees & any other of our
Indian Allies, but if that is not to be done without making
them Presents as often as they may think fit to ask for them
I am afraid they will not be long retained in our Interest; for
as I have intimated to you in a former Letter the Assembly
of this Province have not entrusted me with the Management
or Disposal of any publick money nor granted any Sum for
Indian Affairs in general as the Assemblies of some of the
Colonies have done; They have indeed made some Provision

Letter Bk. III


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